The constraints of generality and universality, together with propitious background conditions like rough equality and cultural similarity, are sufficient to produce the general will from the assembly.
Sufficient to produce(as used in logical and philosophical reasoning)
Strong enough or complete enough to cause or create something—if these conditions exist, the result will follow.
The assembly(as used in political philosophy)
A gathering of people (usually representatives or citizens) who come together to make decisions or create laws for a community.
general will(Rousseau's Social Contract)
The collective will that emerges from an assembly of citizens, either through procedural constraints on self-interested deliberation or through the exercise of citizen virtue
The Social Contract harbors a further tension between two accounts of how the general will emerges and its relation to the private wills of citizens. Sometimes Rousseau favors a procedural story according to which the individual contemplation of self interest (subject to the constraints of generality and universality and under propitious sociological background conditions such as rough equality and cultural similarity) will result in the emergence of the general will from the assembly of citizen